Sensual wits they were, who, it is probable, took pleasure in ridiculing the notion of a life to come.įrancis Atterbury. It would be incredible to a man who has never been in France, should one relate the extravagant notion they entertain of themselves, and the mean opinion they have of their neighbours. Seek them with wand’ring thoughts and notions vain. God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares, That notion of hunger, cold, sound, colour, thought, wish, or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hunger, cold, sound, wish, &c. There is nothing made a more common subject of discourse than nature and it’s laws and yet few agree in their notions about these words. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles, in order to what I have farther to write. The fiction of some beings which are not in nature second notions, as the logicians call them, has been founded on the conjunction of two natures, which have a real separate being. Many actions are punished by law, that are acts of ingratitude but this is merely accidental to them, as they are such acts for if they were punished properly under that notion, and upon that account, the punishment would equally reach all actions of the same kind. Thought representation of any thing formed by the mind idea image conception. The problem stems from an unrealistic notion of what teachers do.Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: notion, Fr.
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